InGaAs multiple quantum well modulating retro-reflector for free-space optical communications

@inproceedings{w2002InGaAsMQ,
  title={InGaAs multiple quantum well modulating retro-reflector for free-space optical communications},
  author={w. and Rabinovich and G. Charmaine Gilbreath and Peter G. Goetz and Rita Mahon and D. S. Kazter and K. Ikossi-Anasatasiou and Steven C. Binari and Timothy J. Meehan and M. S. Ferraro and I. Sokoisky and John A. Vasquez and M. J. Vilcheck},
  booktitle={SPIE Optics + Photonics},
  year={2002},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6577825}
}
  • w.Rabinovich M. Vilcheck
  • Published in SPIE Optics + Photonics 24 January 2002
  • Engineering, Physics
Modulating retro-reflectors provide means for free space optical communication without the need for a laser, telescope or pointer tracker on one end of the link. These systems work by coupling a retro-reflector with an electro- optic shutter. The modulating retro-reflector is then interrogated by a cw laser beam from a conventional optical communications system and returns a modulated signal beam to the interrogator. Over the last few years the Naval Research Laboratory has developed modulating… 
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